Outdoor Clothing
Giant Patagonia Pledging to Lead Resistance to Trump
by Warner Todd Huston 18 Jun 2017
The CEO of
outdoor clothing giant Patagonia is
burnishing her anti-Republican bona fides again, this time saying she intends
to pledge her entire company to the “resistance” of President Donald Trump.
Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario recently attacked President
Trump for his statements about rolling back President Obama’s unusually
aggressive campaign of confiscating millions of acres of state lands and
claiming them as “national monuments.”
“We have to fight like hell to keep every inch of public
land,” Marcario
said in a May article at Huffpost. “I don’t have a lot of faith in
politics and politicians right now.”
In an effort to prevent citizens from retaking possession
of their state lands, one of her immediate actions will be to sue the Trump
administration for its efforts to scale back Obama’s unprecedented land grab.
“A president does not have the authority to rescind a
national monument,” Marcario said in an April 26
statement after Trump announced his national monuments order. “An
attempt to change the boundaries ignores the review process of cultural and
historical characteristics and the public input.”
In particular, the Trump administration is preparing to
revisit Obama’s order to create the Bears Ears National Monument. In April,
Trump issued an executive order requiring the Department of the Interior to review Obama’s actions on national monuments.
Ordering Interior Secretary Ray Zinke to review Obama’s policies in April, President
Trump called Obama’s move an “egregious abuse of federal
power.”
Many state governments fully agree with Trump’s
assessment and were furious when Obama swooped in from Washington and stole
away millions of acres of land from state control to create new national
monuments and parks.
A poll of residents of Utah, for instance, showed that 60
percent opposed Obama’s land grab, while only 33 percent supported
it.
Along with the possible lawsuit, Marcario said Patagonia
would use its profits to back pro-environmental candidates in states throughout
the West.
This is far from the first time the sportswear company
pledged its profits to political matters. Last year, the California-based
company spent
over $1 million for a get-out-the-vote campaign to defeat Donald
Trump and Republicans.
But, despite its acclaimed high-minded activism,
Patagonia has a troubled
history of its own, having been tied to human trafficking and child
labor in its supply chain.
Patagonia
Yvon Choinard is
the founder of Patagonia, and was a
friend of Douglas Tompkins.
Note: Douglas Tompkins
was a friend of Yvon Choinard, and
married to Kristine Tompkins & Susie Tompkins Buell.
Kristine
Tompkins was married to Douglas
Tompkins, and the CEO for Patagonia.
Susie Tompkins
Buell was married to Douglas
Tompkins, a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a contributor for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), a fundraiser
for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton
presidential campaign, a member of the Democracy
Alliance, a contributor for the American
Bridge 21st Century, a donor for the Media
Matters for America, is a director at Media
Matters for America, a national finance council member for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), the
founder of the Susie Tompkins Buell
Foundation, and a friend of Hillary
Rodham Clinton.
Susie
Tompkins Buell Foundation was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council for
the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), was
a member of the Democracy Alliance,
a contributor for the American Bridge
21st Century, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Media Matters for America, and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Sidney
Blumenthal was a consultant for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a consultant for the American Bridge 21st Century, a columnist
for the HuffPost, is a consultant for
Media Matters for America, and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s friend &
confidant.
Barbaralee
Diamonstein-Spielvogel was a fundraiser for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, a funder for the
Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation, and is a member of the American
Battle Monuments Commission.
Evelyn P. Foote
was a member of the American Battle
Monuments Commission, and a member of the Veterans and Military Retirees for Hillary Committee.
Chelsea V. Clinton
is the vice chair for the Bill, Hillary
& Chelsea Clinton Foundation, Hillary
Rodham Clinton’s daughter, and was an employee at McKinsey & Company.
McKinsey &
Company was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Norman C. Selby
was a senior partner at McKinsey &
Company, and is a trustee at the National
Parks Conservation Association.
Sally Jewell was
a trustee at the National Parks
Conservation Association, a secretary for the U.S. Department of the Interior, and is the chair for the National Park Foundation.
National
Park Service is a division of the U.S.
Department of the Interior.
Bryan Traubert
is a director at the National Park
Foundation, and married to Penny S.
Pritzker.
Penny S. Pritzker
is married to Bryan Traubert, a
member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, was the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Commerce for the Barack Obama administration, the
national finance chair, fundraiser for the 2008
Barack Obama presidential campaign, a co-chair for the 2009 Barack Obama inaugural committee, a fundraiser, national
co-chair for the 2012 Barack Obama
presidential campaign, a contributor for the 2013 Barack Obama inaugural committee, the host for the Barack Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008,
and Craig M. Robinson’s basketball
coach for the children's team.
Craig M. Robinson’s
basketball coach to children's team was Penny
S. Pritzker, and is Michelle Obama’s
brother.
Michelle Obama is
Craig M. Robinson’s sister, and was
a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton N. Minow is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past
Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Newton N. Minow
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the vice
chairman for the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a lifetime
trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Anna Deavere
Smith is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and an advisory
board member for the Edible Schoolyard.
Susie Tompkins
Buell is an advisory board member for the Edible
Schoolyard, a director at Media
Matters for America, a national finance council member for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), the
founder of the Susie Tompkins Buell
Foundation, a friend of Hillary
Rodham Clinton, was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a contributor for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), a fundraiser
for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton
presidential campaign, a member of the Democracy
Alliance, a contributor for the American
Bridge 21st Century, a donor for the Media
Matters for America, and married to Douglas Tompkins.
Douglas Tompkins
was married to Susie Tompkins Buell &
Kristine Tompkins,
and was a friend of Yvon Choinard.
Kristine
Tompkins was married to Douglas
Tompkins, and the CEO for Patagonia.
Yvon Choinard was
a friend of Douglas Tompkins, and is
the founder of Patagonia.
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